She stared up at him like he hung the moon and the stars and Tobias couldn’t help but feel a stab of jealousy. Jenner rested his hand on her shoulder.

“What even is this?” Isaiah forked some up, looking doubtful.

“I call it Immy’s Chicken Pot Pie. But with Hamburger Helper. And lots of ketchup. Yum. Yum. Dig in.”

Jenner sat and was the first one to bravely attempt Immy’s Chicken Pot Pie which had no chicken.

This girl was crazy.

And Tobias was here for it.

Jenner started to choke and grabbed a glass of water to swallow it down. “Immy? What the hell?”

“What? Is something wrong with it?” She forked up some to eat and Jenner smacked her hand.

She dropped the fork. “Hey!”

Tobias stiffened at the action. What the hell? He was about to jump up and reach over to give Jenner a taste of his own medicine when Jenner spoke.

“Don’t eat it,” he said in a hoarse voice. Then he swallowed several more mouthfuls of water. “Chili. So much chili.”

“There was? I only added a couple of tablespoons of that sauce that Isaiah got.”

“Oh shit. That stuff is made with Carolina Reapers,” Isaiah said. He ate some. “Ooh yep. This has got some heat.”

“Oops,” Immy said. “Sorry.”

Jenner shot her a stern look. “Oops? You know you don’t react well to chili and you put it in anyway. Two weeks without Twizzlers.”

“Hey, no! You can’t do that!”

“Just did. You would have been wheezing and coughing and maybe even vomiting. No Twizzlers. Two weeks.”

Immy pouted, but to his surprise, Jenner didn’t relent. He’d thought the other man might have caved.

Tobias really didn’t understand how these guys didn’t see that Immy was a Little, when they pretty much spent their time Topping her.

17

“Drop the slime, Cherry.”

Immy let out a scream, turning to glare at Tobias who was leaning against the door to the mudroom.

“Where did you come from?” she asked, straightening. “I thought you were outside.”

“I’m sure you wish I was. Drop the slime, Little girl.”

Urgh.

Why did it always send a shiver of longing through her when he called her ‘Little girl.’

“This has nothing to do with you,” she said, putting the slime behind her back.

She’d thought everyone was gone and Tobias was outside.

This sucked.

“No point in putting the slime behind your back at this stage, Cherry,” he told her. “Seen it.”